Word: barrens
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...Dallas out there in the Lone Star State, though no one, no one, admits it. Years ago there was a widely circulated cartoon that captured this never expressed emotion. In the frame were a man and a barefoot woman, a farming couple, with an oil gusher erupting on their barren land. The woman was saying, "How late does Neiman-Marcus stay open...
...noisily from the center of the galaxy, astronomers were sure that the bulge of dust was a maternity ward for new stars. Now the strange arc has revealed itself as one mighty source of those waves, raising the startling possibility that the middle of the Milky Way is a barren womb. Seeking to solve the mysteries, astronomers will return to the Very Large Array again and again, tracking the motion of the gas within the filaments and possibly the origins of the dynamo at the core of the galaxy, where the answer to many questions may be revealed...
...love at first byte. The machine composes a romantic duet, the two "neighbors" make beautiful music together, and Madeline assumes Miles is the tune's author. This is a gently schizophrenic movie: Rusty Lemorande's script is as mild as Miles; the direction, by MTV Whiz Steve Barren (Billie Jean), often percolates as busily as Edgar in high dudgeon. Still, Von Dohlen is a find, with easy, exquisite comic timing; and Edgar, the cybernetic Cyrano, is the most endearingly neurotic bundle of software since...
WHAT WE HAVE here is across between Road Warrior and Decline of Western Civilization a fact which is readily apparent about ten minutes into Repo Man. The Road Warrior bit opens the show as the film begins with a deranged scientist named J. Frank Parnell streaking down a barren L. A. highway in a 6-4 Chevy Malibu A policeman sets off after him on a motorcycle, pulls him to the side of the road, and inquires what is in the trunk, which seems to contain something hot--literally. I wouldn't look in there, Parnell intimates, thereby piquing...
...surgeon's motivation for devoting time and concentrated energy to defeating sterility is not simply desire for same and money the satisfaction in cashing a barren woman to bear is much more profound than can be supplied by either. It is the most seductive extension of his regard for his own power to father, and not in the least contemptible for that...